MACRAMÊ PARA INICIANTES - TUTORIAL SUPORTE DE PLANTA

Hello, I'm Osana, art therapist, art educator and macrame instructor. And today I'm going to teach you how to make this beautiful plant support. I'm going to teach you step by step. One knot at a time, you will learn all of them. And you will also be able to do it. So, I start to measure my line. I start from my shoulder until I stretch my arm. There is one meter, so I made one meter, two meters, three meters. And then I cut the line. The next lines I already measure one by one. And I'm going to cut, then, three meters of line, one by one. I'm cutting here six lines of three meters. This line that I'm using is a thick ribbon, 24 threads. Here inside it is formed by 24 threads. That's why it's called a ribbon, 24 threads. There are several types. This one that I'm using is a thick ribbon, 24 threads. After the lines are cut, I'm going to take the lines and I'm going to join all the tips to match. It's always a little uneven, but we're only going to get it right at the end of the work. And now I take these lines and I'm going to go through the ring. I go through the ring and I'm also going to join, match the tips. Every time I do this work, I need to put the line through the ring and match the tips so that my work is balanced. Now I need to cut two lines of 50 centimeters. I take a meter and cut in the middle. After I pass the lines through the ring, I'm going to attach the lines to the ring with a knot called hidden knot. The hidden knot I do like this. I fix the lines in the ring, hold it tight, and I'm going to take this line, hold it with my finger, make a loop and hold it here too. Let's do it again? I hold the line, take this line here, make a loop, hold it. After I hold it, I'm going to turn it around. One, two, three, four, five times. On the fifth time, I pass this tip of the line through this ring and hold it. And now, with this tip up here, I'm going to pull and hide my knot. I pulled and it was hidden. This tip here I'm going to cut, it's an excess. And then, I finished my piece. The initial finish was made with the hidden knot. After this is done, I'm going to separate the lines four by four. I separate four lines. One, two, three, four. I separate four lines. And I have four lines here. After this is done, I can start braiding, giving the knots. And we're going to work the DNA knot. It's a spiral knot. What happens with the spiral knot? I'm going to work with it always the knot, always to the same side. The DNA knot, the difference is this. I make the knot always to the same side. So, we go there, look. There are four lines. I make a four. I pass under the two lines, over the last one. This last line that I passed, I bring it in here and pull. And then, I make a knot. It was the first knot. I go, again, the same process. I make a four. This leg here, I bring it in here and pull. And I bring the knot up there. Again, I make a four. This leg down here, I bring it in here. I make a four. I hold here to not slip. I make the loop. Look, the secret, hold here and bring your knot. Tighten a little bit. And let's go again. I made the four. This line here, look. You bring it in here. Hold. Pull the line. And, look, I bring the knot. Again. I made the four. I bring it in here. And it's done. And we're making the spiral knot. Or, called DNA. I call it DNA because it makes... It turns and becomes like a DNA chain. After the fifth knot, it starts to turn. Do you realize that it's turning? Look. It starts to turn after the fifth knot that you give. And then you continue. In the same process. We're going to do it by marking, look, the five fingers. Okay? We're going to mark this piece here. So, look, do you see that it's... It started to turn. But we keep making four, always to the same side. When I'm making the DNA knot, my phone rings. I need to go out. But if I let go, I don't know which side I was giving the knot. What do I do? I separate that leg where the knot starts and I go there. I answer the phone, I drink water. I do what I need to do. When I come back, I take that line back and I start doing my knot again. To the same side. I can't do it to the other side. If I do it to the other side, I lose this movement. And it stops being the spiral knot. And it will be a messy knot. But it won't be the spiral knot. It's already well turned. If I let go, you'll see that it will turn. Look. See? Let's continue a little more. Until I do the measure I told you. Always in the same scheme, ok? I never stopped doing the same thing. Make the four, pull in here and go. Look. Ok? Look how it turned. But I'm going to continue a little more. Now I've already made the size I wanted. I can let go. Ok? I'm going to repeat the same process with the other arm here. Of four lines. I'm going to do the DNA knot again. And then I'm going to repeat with this leg here too. With this arm here too. Ok? So, leave it there and let's do the four. And pull. Make the four. And pull. Make the four. And pull. Make the four. And pull. Now, what happens if you don't hold the line like I'm holding? If you don't hold the line, you'll do this. Look. See? And you do anything, except the DNA knot. So, you always have to hold the line when you're making the knot. Look, I held it here. And, you see that here my hand already holds it. And here I'm pulling and... When I'm going to make the knot here too, I have to try to pull always the same, to the same sides. Look. When you make the knot, you try to do this. Pull in the same way, to one side and to the other. If you do this differently, if you pull only on one side and then you'll pull on the other, you won't be able to make your DNA knot perfect. It will be crooked. So, you have to pull in the same way to both sides. Look. And then, we're taking to make in the same measure that the other DNA is here. The same measure that I made here, I'm going to make here. I separated the line like this, on the top, to be able to see how I'm doing. But, actually, you can leave it loose. Ok? I just separated it to be able to see better that I have to separate the lines. You can leave it loose. After you have mastered the scheme, you can make it loose. Don't get in the way. Because you hold the four lines in your hand and you're taking it. So, almost in the same size as the other one. Almost there. Let's see. One more round is missing. Done. And now, the last layer, the last arm. We made two arms here with DNA, let's make the third one. Same scheme. Hold, make the four and pull. Holding the line so the knot won't be crooked. Made the four, pulled and pulled the knot. Always holding so the knot won't be crooked. If you feel difficulty because it's winding a lot, hold the line that you were doing to the side you were doing. Let it wind. And then you continue. Continue making the four. Same scheme. Almost there. In the size of the others. We have three arms to keep working. And now, I always work with the three arms individually. One at a time. So now, I'll let it pass. I'll make a space again. The same space I made here, I'll make here. And I'll make a knot and start leaving this space here without a knot to make a differentiated work. Same thing. I make the four and bring it here. But instead of taking the knot up there, I'll leave the knot here. Look. I'll measure and I'll leave the knot here. From the same space I have here, which is one hand, my hand, my hand here again. And I'll bring the knot only until here. But now, I'll make another type of knot. Now I'll make the square knot. The square knot is like this. You make it to one side, then you make it to the other. Again. This is the square knot. The square knot I make like this. I make a four, I pass under two, in front of one. This last one I passed over, I bring it here and pull it. I make the first knot. Now I do the opposite. I bring the four here. And this line that was under, I bring it here and pull it. So I made a square knot. It's a square knot. It makes a little square. I'll do it again. I make the four, I bring it here. Now I make the four to the other side. And I bring it here, pull it. Notice that I'm always holding here, look. To tension the line and it doesn't get crooked. So I made one, two, three squares. Now I'll take another line arm and I'll also make three squares. I mark here the space of my hand. The space of my hand. I'll bring the knot here. So let's go. If the line gets crooked, you untwist it. You have to fix the lines to start making your knot. Whenever you make a work, you have to fix the lines so you can make your knot. You can't do it with the crooked line. If the line is crooked like this, your work will be wrong. You fix the lines and then you start making the knot. I mark and my knot will come here. So I make it here. I made four, pulled. It has to be the same size, the same height as the other one. And now I come to the other side. I made four and pulled. Again. I make four, pulled. And I come back, I make four to the other side. Again. I make four, pull here. I make four and pull to the other side. And I made one, two, three squares. Now I go to the other arm. In the same way, I fix the line, I mark and I bring my knot here. Let's see if it's the same. First square. I make four. Again. And to finish. Very well. Now, we'll mark one more piece. We'll make again another layer of square knot. Let's go. It's crooked. What do I do? I undo. When it's crooked, you undo. In macramé, it's like this. If you made a mistake, you undo, you start again. There's no mystery. It's just undo and make a knot again. Let's go. I marked. That's why it's important to fix the line. And the line is stretched. Look. Now I come to the other side. Let me lift this here. Because it's getting too low. That's it. Let's go again. I made four. I fix my line. I made four. See that the line is crooked? I fix the line. I made four again. Last time. Let's go to the other leg. Same thing. In macramé, the work may seem repetitive, but you work on your memory. Because you go to one side, you go to the other. While you're doing this, your memory is working. Your hands are obeying your commands. Now, the last leg is missing. Or, the last arm. I'll turn this way. And I'll make a knot. How do I do this without wrinkling? Tensioning the line. When I want to I'll do it again. When I want to give this space and keep the work straight and clean, I have to adjust the line and give a slight tension. I can't let it loose. If I let it loose, when I make the knot, the line will wrinkle. So, I have to give a slight tension. I don't need to stretch too much. Just a little tension to be able to keep the line stretched. Then, I come and I'm always holding the line. Then, I can make my knot without it making a belly. Side, square knot. Remembering that the square knot you make a knot to one side and to the other. The work is already like this. Now, I want to make the base where my vase will sit. So, what am I going to do? Each part is loose. I have to join these parts somehow. What am I going to do? Each end will join with the other end. Is it complicated? No. Let's talk again. To make the base of the vase that will be here in this support, I have to join these arms that are here. How am I going to join these arms? Each end, each arm, has four lines hanging here. Four hanging lines. I'm going to take the lines that are on the end, the two on the tip, and I'm going to join with the other that is also on the tip. I'm going to take this one and I'm going to separate the line from the end. Look, this one with this one. And what am I going to do? I'm going to mark here also a space and I'm going to make a knot, a simple knot. I come here and I make a knot that can be like this. If I do like this, your knot is done, right? Now, I need, I marked like this, right? I need, if you have difficulty to mark like this, you can mark with the ruler or with the meter. So, how much did you use? Let's see. I used exactly 15 cm to make the knot. So, now I'm going to come here. I tied one end, can you see? Now, I come to the other end, I'm going to join with this one here, ok? With the other end. Two, the two ends, I joined here. I'm going to mark 15 cm that was what I used here, what I marked here, 15 cm, ok? In these 15 cm, I'm going to make my knot. So, I already have two narrations. Only the last one is missing. Now, I come here to the two final ends and I'm going to mark 15 cm. I mark the 15 cm and I'm going to make my knot again. Now, I already joined all of them, I joined all the arms. This one is the space where I'm going to put my vase, ok? But then, now I need to close because if I put a vase here, it will fall. So, let's finish now joining all the ends. To finish, I do like this, I join all the ends and this same knot that I made here, that I call hidden knot, I'm going to finish with it that you can call hidden knot or finishing knot because you give a beautiful finish, your work looks beautiful. So, now we're going to make the finishing knot with that other 15 cm that I said for you to cut. Besides you cut the 3 meters of thread, 6 threads of 3 meters, you cut 2 threads of 50 cm. One to make this finishing here on top, another one to make the finishing down here that is what we're going to do now. So, you fix the threads, stretch them and you will tie. You hold the thread, make a loop and count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. On the fifth turn you will pass the thread here inside. Passed inside, hold here and this thread that is on top you will pull. When you pull you're taking your knot inside and it stays hidden. Pull well so it stays tight. Now, this excess we're going to cut. And this excess down here we're also going to cut. And then, I have here a plant support where I can inside here put my plant vase. Let me see here. I can put a vase even bigger than this one but this one fits right here. The knots are here. Those knots that I gave joining each arm are these here. They are the knots that hold the vase. These threads you can open and you can hug your vase and it stays completely secure and beautiful. These threads you can still untie. You can do this. Give a rustic They stay more curly more loose. And you finish your work. And our work I know that today I taught you a lot. There were different points and knots and maybe this got confusing for you. If you have any questions leave them here in the comments so I can maybe help you making another video with each knot separately to heal all your doubts so you can also make a beautiful macrame. See you next time!